It was held by Labour from 1935 until 2019, before being lost to Conservative Brendan Clarke-Smith in a swing of almost 19,000 votes. Bassetlaw is a shire district in Nottinghamshire, England. If you have any questions about this privacy policy or any concerns or complaints about how your data has been processed, please contact us at info@bassetlawlabour.com 2. PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY It is predominantly rural, with two towns: Worksop and Retford. Lewisham Deptford is running a ballot to see if they want an Open Selection. The 2023 Bassetlaw District Council election will take place on 4 May, 2023, to elect all 48 members of Bassetlaw District Council in England. A lot of it was down to the anti-Corbyn rhetoric.. We dont stand together., Although he voted Labour 12 months ago, Potts has since left the party after 40 years, including a stint as a local councillor. Birklands, Meden (both in the Warsop area). Former Bassetlaw MP John Mann, who has become a member of the House of Lords, called Ms Gimson's removal a "stitch-up". Surprisingly, I was long-listed and then short-listed. Bassetlaw District Council was created in 1974 following the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. The Conservatives, led by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, won the most seats, but Labour, led by Ramsay MacDonald, and H. H. Asquith's reunited Liberal Party gained enough seats to produce a hung parliament.It is the most recent UK general election in which a third party (here, the Liberals) won over 100 seats. [4], Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}5324N 057W / 53.40N 0.95W / 53.40; -0.95. The district was formed in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. Theyre here because of reasonable housing prices with good links to the M1 and rail services to Nottingham and Sheffield where there are decent jobs.. Local families are being taxed to the hilt.Living standards are being squeezed like never before.The Tories have betrayed the trust of local people andwasted billions of taxpayers money. [4] The Labour candidate initially chosen to replace Mann, Sally Gimson, was deselected before the election by the party's National Executive Committee over what were described as "very serious allegations". Councillor Simon Greaves, who has led the authority for a. My names Simon and im seeking selection to be the Labour Candidatefor Bassetlaw at the next General Election, I attended Prospect Hill School and then Valley Comprehensive, I later qualified. Residents' health and wealth are slightly below the UK average.[3]. The people of Bassetlaw will not accept an outside stooge imposed by the cult around Corbyn. A year after the collapse of the red wall, Alison Benjamin revisited Nottinghamshire. But on Wednesday, Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) axed her over "very serious allegations". Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Our dedicated coverage of Labour's policies and personalities, internal debates, selections and elections relies on donations from our readers. That uncertainty takes its toll on your mind, says Potts. Matt Hancock is paying the price for his self-congratulatory book, Sunaks Windsor deal has left Boris Johnson high and dry, Universal Credit falls short of covering the bare essentials. Dominic Cummingss trip to Barnard Castle. Bellenger held the seat until he died in 1968. This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 19:16. The Conservative Party suffered its worst defeat in Bassetlaw since 1973, winning only 5 seats of the 12 seats it was defending. The full list of candidates has been released for the upcoming Bassetlaw District Council elections. I always thought it primarily represented the interests of bosses, big business and the banks, it rarely did anything for ordinary people. Former journalist and campaigner Sally Gimson announced on 27 October that she was "delighted to have been selected" to represent Labour in Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire. My aim has always been to make our local party a welcoming place for people like my daughter. And so it was. [n 2]Before that election, the seat had been part of the so-called "red wall", being held by the Labour Partysince 1929. The Conservative Party are expected to choose their candidate shortly and Labour have until 14 November to make their final selection. A by-election was held on 24 November 2022 due to the resignation of Denise Depledge (Conservative)[6]. The Conservative Party suffered its worst defeat in Bassetlaw since 1973, winning only 5 seats of the 12 seats it was defending. The Labour Party was born at the turn of the 20th century out of the frustration of working-class people at their inability to field parliamentary candidates through the Liberal Party, which at that time was the dominant social-reform party in Britain. No official complaint has ever been made about me in all my time as a member and on the contrary I have numerous character references from my local party in Holborn and St Pancras. He has served on the BAME Labour executive committee and is currently standing for election as a local party rep on Labours ruling national executive committee. It was this that led me to join the Labour Party to stand up and fight for the area I am proud to call home. The Remain supporter said she had been "condemned by a kangaroo court". The constituency was created in 1885 by the Redistribution of Seats Act. Enough is enough. Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results. Support my campaign and lets win Bassetlaw for Labour. I also offered a vision beyond Brexit of a constituency which could power the country with renewable energy as it once powered the country with coal. In the 2019 general election the Conservative Party candidate Brendan Clarke-Smith won the seat with the biggest swing in the election, turning a 4,852 Labour majority into a 14,013 Conservative majority and becoming the first non-Labour MP to represent the constituency in 90 years.[2]. These by election results returned the Conservative Party to be the official opposition on Bassetlaw District Council. Therefore, I was astonished that five days after my winning photo was taken, I was told that Labours National Executive Committee wanted to interview me about complaints of my behaviour at meetings in London, which had suddenly emerged. They have squandered billions of taxpayers money and lurch from crisis to crisis whilst local families and business suffer. Sally Gimson was last week. Local Government in Nottinghamshire is organised on a two-tier basis, with local district councils responsible for local services such as housing, local planning and refuse collection and Nottinghamshire County Council responsible for "wide-area" services, including education, social services and public transport. Video, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, Survivors describe 'nightmarish seconds' as trains crashed, Bieber cancels remaining Justice world tour dates, Daily walk prevents one in 10 early deaths - study, Trump lashes out at Murdoch over vote fraud case, Uranium particles enriched to 83.7% found in Iran, Why the lab-leak theory is being taken seriously, Finland starts construction of Russia border fence. There were no boundary changes in 1997. Bassetlaw Division was now defined as containing the Municipal Borough of East Retford, the Urban Districts of Warsop and Worksop, and the Rural Districts of Blyth & Cuckney, Misterton and East Retford, with the civil parish of Sookholme from Skegby Rural District. [7], In the December 2019 general election, the Conservatives won the seat with a swing from Labour of 18.4%, the largest recorded in the election. The Conservative Party have won 4 by elections in 2021, taking 2 seats from Labour Party and 1 seat from Independents . I usually end up singing in a bar somewhere with George, says Dave Anderson, 67, a gala committee member. The East Midlands Labour Party tweeted a photo of their new favourite holding up a placard of Jeremy Corbyn, which will raise a smile for HERE'S a story to wake a sleeping blog: the former Camden councillor and one time leadership contender Sally Gimson was yesterday selected by Labour as the parliamentary candidate for Bassetlaw. I just thought things couldnt get any worse for a lot of people round here and maybe it would lead to more internal investment if we left., Whitehead was another Brexiter. [1] Prior to this election, the council decided to move to all-out elections from 2015. They stopped listening to the arguments [to stay in]. In 2019, Mann resigned being having been appointed to head a government inquiry on tackling anti-Semitism and to take a seat in the House of Lords. He held the seat until retirement at the 2001 general election. The Labour Party has until 14 November to name its new candidate. Read about our approach to external linking. We win in Bassetlaw by working as a team, listening to local residents and taking on the tories head on. The local party backed Ms Gimson at an emergency meeting on Wednesday night and appealed to Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to "see sense". The Local Democracy Reporting Service said it was understood the deselection came after complaints from the party in London, relating to "very serious allegations" concerning "protected characteristics" - this can relate to issues surrounding race, disability and sexuality. For too many politicians its the career thats important to them, not the people they represent. No date set for when landline and internet will be restored in village left without access for more than a month, 'Devastated' family launch fundraiser after fire rips through farm, Relief as A17 Cross Keys Swing Bridge roadworks 'finally' come to an end, Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says Boris Johnson will 'inevitably lose' next election during Lincoln visit, Youths using makeshift flamethrowers at nature reserve. [3], Bassetlaw is divided into 25 wards for electoral purposes. He contested Putney constituency at the 2017 election, coming second to the Tory candidate by 1,554 votes. In that year, the town of East Retford and the neighbouring areas were transferred to the redrawn Newark constituency. The constituency's boundaries then remained unchanged until 1983. It comes on the same day that three former Labour MPs - including Jeremy Corbyn ally Chris Williamson - were barred from standing by the NEC. We also underestimated how it has in some ways legitimised xenophobia and racist opinions., Bell agrees. Read more: Bassetlaw council leader Simon Greaves announces he is standing as Labour MP candidate, "Swift action has been taken and the individual concerned has been immediately suspended from the Labour Party. It feels like the machine now running the party believes it can be as brutal as it likes, especially now a general election has been called. SAFER COMMUNITIES We have installed extra CCTV cameras and upgraded street lighting in our Town Centres. MacDonald held the seat as a National Labour candidate in the 1931 election, but was defeated at the next election in 1935 by Labour's Frederick Bellenger. Bassetlaw was announced as one of a second tranche of 21 seats in which the Constituency Labour Party (CLP) was allowed by the central party to get started on its selection process early. I want to build a better future for her, and I am convinced that the Labour Party is the only party of equality that truly represents working people. The council resolved in 2014 to hold all-out elections from 2015 onwards, with all 48 councillors elected in all-out elections every four years. Facebook; Twitter; I am a Bassetlaw resident and have been for over 20 years. Local government boundary changes in the 1930s now meant that Bassetlaw County Constituency was defined as comprising the Municipal Boroughs of East Retford and Worksop, the Urban District of Warsop and the Rural Districts of East Retford and Worksop.

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